Università Roma Tre

- Linguistics, as a science of language and thought.
- The rise of linguistics. Historical linguistics. General linguistics.
- Semiotic foundations of language. Design features.
- Using the language device: the theory of Speech Acts, the theory of implicatures. Persuading: the need to know how the device is shaped. Intonation and politeness. Sociolinguistic choices.
Linguistic and present-day comunication: linguistic strategies of persuasive communication. The grammar of persuasion.
Linguistics and society: rights, linguistic deprivation, variational linguistics.
- Linguistics and the languages of the world.
- Phonetics; phonetic transcription. Italian and English phonetics.
- Phonology. Phonemes and allophones. Phonological oppositions. Phonological rules. The syllable. Suprasegmental features. Intonation, illocution and Information Structure.
- The lexicon. The Word. Word classes.
- Morphology. Morphemes and allomorphs. Types of morphemes and morphological typology. Inflexion. Word formation: derivation and composition.
- Syntax. Structure. Head and modifier. Basic word order. Argument structure. The ergative parameter.
- Semantics. What is meaning. Types of meanings. Ordering schemes for meanings. The delimitation of meanings: traditional categories and prototypes.
- Pragmatics. Macropragmatics: speech acts and conversational implicatures. Micropragmatics: Information Structure of the utterance.
- Interfaces between levels. The phonology-morphology interface: the loss of inflections, metaphony. The morphology-syntax interface: inflection and word order. The syntax-pragmatics interface: marked constructions and informational stress.
- Linguistics, knowledge and culture.
- Linguistics, man and the brain: what are we? Linguistic universals. Implicational universals. Explaining language universals. An example: two kinds of memory, and the "magical nunber seven".
- Diachronical linguistics and the past: history, archaeology, philology. Language change. Phonetic change. Morphological change. Semantic change. The "laws" of linguistic change. Words and Things: linguistic reconstruction and cultural reconstruction. The interpretation of texts.

- E. Lombardi Vallauri, La linguistica in pratica. Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007 (II edizione, 2010).

The main aim of this course (Parts A+B) is to introduce students into the study of the theory and methods of general linguistics. To this purpose, the basic notions of linguistics are illustrated, at an elementary level, integrating theory with the discussion of examples and class exercises.

In particular, the A Part will deal with the following topics:
- Linguistics: language science, mind science.
- Verbal language: languages, language, and communication.
- Elements of semiotics: verbal language properties.
- Synchrony and diachrony: linguistics and society; language variation; different registers.
- Phonetics and phonetic transcription. Exercises on Italian and other languages.
- Phonology. Phonemes and allophones. Phonological oppositions. Phonological rules. The syllable. Suprasegmental features. Tone and intonation.
- Morphology. Morphemes and allomorphs. Classification of morphemes; morphological typology. Word formation: derivation and compounds.
- Semantics:The meaning. Kinds of sense relations between lexemes. Compositional semantics. Prototype semantics. Elements of sentence semantics.
- Linguistic change. Language change phenomena. Language contact.

• Berruto, G., M. Cerruti (2011), La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Novara, UTET – De Agostini Scuola. (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 7)

The main objective of this course (Parts A+B) is to introduce students into the study of the theory and methods of General Linguistics – a subject having a crucial importance in the relevant “Corso di Laurea Triennale”. To this purpose, the basic notions of linguistics are illustrated – though at an elementary level, integrating theory with the discussion of examples and class exercises.
In particular, this B Part will deal with the following topics:
- Linguistic universals. Principles and Parameters.
- Categories and Functions; the notion of “word”.
- Syntactic analysis: constituency tests, phrase structure, phrasal “heads”, the head-complement parameter.
- Interfaces: interaction between syntax and the other levels of the grammar (lexicon, semantics, morphology and pragmatics)
- Verb valency. Arguments vs. adjuncts; argumental roles.
- Sentential structure; clausal types; null and expletive subject.
- Basic notions of pragmatics, Speech acts; Information structure.
- Major language families, genealogic classification of languages and their origin.
- Typological classification of languages; morphologic and syntactic typology. Comparative analysis. Ergativity.

• Frascarelli, M., F. Ramaglia e B. Corpina (2012) Elementi di sintassi. Caissa Italia – Roma/Cesena. Chapters: Introduction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Appendix (always excluding the paragraphs indicated with a grey background in the Table of Contents)
• Crystal, D. (1993) Enciclopedia Cambridge delle scienze del linguaggio, P.M. Bertinetto (ed.), Zanichelli, Bologna (Part IX: pp. 283-327).

The main aim of this course (Parts A+B) is to introduce students into the study of the theory and methods of general linguistics. To this purpose, the basic notions of linguistics are illustrated, at an elementary level, integrating theory with the discussion of examples and class exercises.

The B Part aims to develop fundamentals of phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, with particular regard to the languages studied in the OCI curriculum. In addition, the position of the studied languages in the typological and genetic classification will be considered.

In particular, the B part will deal with the following topics:

-Phonetic transcription. Phonological system of the studied languages. Phonological oppositions. Suprasegmental features.
- The notion of “word”. Inflection, derivation, and compounds.
-Syntactic analysis: phrase structure, phrasal “heads”, the head-complement parameter, and word order. Sentence structure; sentence and clause types; null and expletive subject.
- Typological classification of languages; morphological and syntactic typology.
- Genetic classification of languages; major language families.

• Graffi, G. – S. Scalise, 2002, Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica, Bologna, il Mulino (chapters 3; 4; 5; 7).
• Crystal, D. (1993) “Enciclopedia Cambridge delle scienze del linguaggio”, P.M. Bertinetto (ed.), Zanichelli, Bologna (Part IX: pp. 283-327).
• Other materials will be suggested during the course.